Illusory Human Inventions (List)

[BlessedLion]

Please help me add to this list of made up human illusions:

 

Illusory Human Inventions:

 

-Time (there is only the now. All thoughts of past and present are concepts that happen in the Now. You were “born” in the Now, your body will decay in this moment.)

 

-The Seperate Self (you being a seperate person “in there” is only an idea, a concept. Yes there is an awareness of these words, but the idea that there is a seperate individual in there reading these words is an imagined add-on) 

 

-Death (when you realize that there is no seperate self, and you are always only suspended in the Infinite Now, it becomes clear that your true Self cannot die. How does infinity die? Your body will decay but you are not inside the body, the body is inside you. How do you kill awareness?)

 

-Language: say the word “Apple” now what did you experience? Probably a sound, can you eat that sound? What does that sound have to do with an actual apple? 🍏 

 

“Enlightenment is less about gaining new truth than it is dropping illusions.”

-BlessedLion

[Sugarcoat]

Some even go as far as say there’s no reality and nothing happening since there is no separation so there isn’t “something “ 

[Princess Arabia]

Humans didn't invent time, the separate self nor death. I guess what you mean is human's invented concepts. None of that really exists. Something that doesn't exist cannot be invented by humans. Humans don't really exists either, that's another concept. It's all made up. There's no list, unless you want to list everything. That which doesn't appear and disappear, that which never changes, that which is ever present.,,,,,that is, what really is. The rest, which is everything observable are nothing but appearances.

[Exystem]

- Others

- Free will

- Meaning&purpose

- Reality

- Truth

- Enlightenment

- Consciousness

- The Absolute

- "Awakened"

- "a concept"

- "a human"

- "an illusion"

Basically everything that has an opposite, which can be described (or at least "meaningfully" attempted), which is a concept even though it may be expressed as "not a concept", that's still a concept. If someone claims any of those above exclusively, seperates it from something of "lesser order", or claims that it is more real/important, this creates a distinction, some kind of (subtle) exclusion which means that it still remains in the realm of concepts and therefore human(?) illusions. So it's illusions all the way down, even the so called "non-illusions" that are talked about in spirituality or nonduality. All words, all concepts, all empty. Nothing is real, nothing remains, only everchenanging Isness is. Whatever the hell that is. No one knows

[UnbornTao]

Maybe there's nothing after all.  Not to be confused with nihilism. Don't believe this.

To add some: others, life, mind, experience, objects. Any distinction that shows up or appears as, real. 

But knowing what's the case ourselves is a totally different matter and won't be what we think it is or might be.

Edited July 27 by UnbornTao

[Hojo]

something being alive

Edited July 27 by Hojo